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Saturday, February 19, 2011

57 - The Syllable GA : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This is the 57th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable GA in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see some "filler" material. After I get all the syllables online, I will clean up the individual pages by making images of the various signs and uploading them to eliminate the current text resolution deficiencies, but it is a massive amount of tedious extra graphics work, so I am not doing it right now, as it is not essential for online purposes. One can see the full grid for the syllable on the scanned image.



The Syllable GA in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

ΓΑ
GA
γαα "land"
Two primary concepts
are found here for the
GA syllable, one a term
for land parcel and the
other a term for goat.
(It is unclear to my
zoologically untrained
eye whether the
Egyptian hieroglyph is

The Cypriot sign looks
like an abstraction of an
animal with two horns
Cypriot
syllabary

𐠼

GA


Logically in this
context an
abstract goat
with horns.
Linear B
Currently read
as JA

𐀊(57)

GA

"land"
land parcel
“a piece of
land”
Phaistos Disk


GA

"of a goat"

Egyptian
Ancient
Egyptian
bestiary at
No comparable Axe sign
_______

Cretan Goat by
Kri-kri (Capra aegagrus
creticus), Cretan Ibex see
native to the Eastern
Mediterranean, now
almost only on Crete
No Elamite
sign yet.
_______
Egyptian
SCHSA
gHs
Indo-
European
e.g. Latvian
“goat”
Sumerian
GANA

KA5
(“billy-goat”)